Dragon Age II Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

Night Terrors is initiated by reading a letter by the same name on your writing desk. In it, Arianni requests you to see her at the alienage in Lowtown, though such requests never bode well for the undertaking to come. Arianni's worried visage is backed by her grave news concerning none other than Feynriel, who seems to be missing again and, according to the Keeper, is dabbling in dangerous magic. What a troublesome boy.

As far as we can tell, your dialogue decisions are for more investigative purposes during the extensive briefing preceding the proper quest and have no direct consequences. This continuation of sorts of the Wayward Son quest plunges you into a terrifying realm of magic that will pit you against a powerful demonic foe. As an aside, having Anders in the party will add an interesting layer of intrigue to unwinding the story here.

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Interestingly enough, you'll encounter a number of oddities and puzzles in this shadowy realm that reward you with a free floating attribution point for each one you solve. The first one is in the room you are brought to in which a spectral book hovers around in the middle, fading away as you approach and materializing again in another location not too far. Luckily, its pattern of appearing and disappearing is predictable enough for you to nab it with lightning quick hands and gain an attribution point.

Moving on to the east corridor from here, you come across some barrels of varying size. The idea here is to rearrange the barrels so that the small ones are stacked on top of the big ones, all within 18 moves. Failure to solve it within the permitted number of moves bears its own sour fruits: A Rage Demon and some Shades to fight, but the biggest blow of all is the lost opportunity to win an attribution point freebie. When moving the barrels, be sure that you have the correct barrel targeted so a move is not wasted on an accident. Follow the screenshots below from left to right in sequence to see how we've solved this puzzle.

Top right-most barrel to the right, small barrel below it up.

Shift the next two small barrels on the bottom to the right. Move the left most big barrel down, next to the small barrels and stack the big barrel in the middle on top of that.

Left-hand small barrel on the bottom moved up, shifting the left-hand big barrel to replace it and moving down the big left-hand barrel on top.

Move the two small barrels on top one spot to the left, which makes space for the lone small barrel on the bottom. Lift up the small barrel, so now all three small barrels are at the top. With that, move the big barrel one space over to the left so that the last big barrel on top can be lowered.

A similar puzzle reigns in the next room to the east. This time involving more barrels of the same size, though with different colors now. Notice how the red barrels to either side are stacked? Aim to shift around these scattered red barrels along the northern wall until they mimic the arrangement displayed by these side barrels. Again, you are restricted to 18 moves, where success bestows you two additional attribute points and failure slams you with enemies to fend off (as well as erasing any chance to retrieve those points).

Start by moving left most top barrel to the left and the one below it to the previous' original spot. Do the same on the other side.

Right now all the non-red barrels are on top. Squish the red barrels together so they're all aligned with no spaces.

Push down the outer most barrels down on either side, then shift two barrels to each side, which leaves an opening for the two red barrels in the middle to go up.

Move the red barrels up and move the red barrels underneath them to form the perfect stack and solve this puzzle.